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2018

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NSFA Webinar: #GivingTuesday 9 Week Plan

#GivingTuesday Before, During and After: Your 9-Week Success Plan!
With only weeks left before the biggest giving day of the year, we’re all systems go for #GivingTuesday. If your current #GivingTuesday plan is to email a link to your “Donate Now” page and hope for the best, you still have time to implement a powerful strategy. Dana Ostomel, founder of Deposit a Gift and one of the nation’s leading authorities on crowdfunding, will take you step-by-step through creating your 9-week communications plan and implementing your best giving day ever. A successful #GivingTuesday lasts well beyond a one-day event, as long as your plan includes a strategy that starts on #GratefulWednesday.

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NSFA Webinar: Corporate Matching Gift

Every year, anywhere from $4 to $7 billion in matching gifts are left on the table — and not for a lack of amazing corporate philanthropy programs or donors who want to make their donations go further! Most donors don't follow through with corporate philanthropy simply because they don't know that their employers offer programs that will help them support the organizations they care about.

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NSFA Webinar: What the Changes in the 2017 Tax Law Mean to You and Your Donors

What the Changes in the 2017 Tax Law Mean to You and Your Donors
As you are aware, recent changes in the Tax Laws have created some changes for Education Foundations and their donors. Join us to learn what those changes are and what you can do to mitigate their effect, definitions of “Tax Information vs. Tax Advice” for gift planners and what motivates wealth holders and their philanthropy.

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NSFA Webinar: Managing Your Human Resources and Healthcare Plans, Is a PEO Right for You?

Managing Your Human Resources and Healthcare Plans, Is a PEO Right for You?
Are you looking for access to healthcare, dental, vision plans or a 401K for your employees? Do you struggle to manage the Human Resource end of your organization? Join us to learn about NSFA’s newest member benefit, TriNet’s HR for Nonprofits. It reduces the time organizations spend managing HR. Available for foundations with one or more employees (ideal for staff of 4 or more), this national PEO plan provides up to a 65% discount, including HR administration and guidance on compliance; a dedicated team of HR professionals, including an employee support center; secure online payroll processing, tax withholdings, remittances, and robust reporting capabilities; and access to cost savings via large group pricing on health, dental, life insurance and 401K plans. You’ll learn about PEO’s and whether this is a good option to help your organization become more sustainable.

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NSFA Webinar: Allocate Your Costs Correctly and Stay Out of Trouble!

Cost allocation is one of those things that’s never been simple and was made even more complicated for non-profits under the federal government’s new grant regulation ‘Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200). Whether it’s proper budgeting, spending, allocating or filling out our 990s properly, cost allocation is a beast.

We can’t fix the world, but in 60 minutes you’ll be exposed to the key elements of cost allocation, vital areas of documentation and reporting, as well as our few, complex and risky parts of the best practice ‘Cost Allocation Cycle. All in 60 minutes? Yes!

Join us to learn how to reduce your risk and anxiety when living in the world of ‘Federal Grant Cost Allocation.’

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How to Avoid Fundraising's Quiet Killer: Donor Attrition
In this session you will learn how to step off the donor acquisition treadmill and start revving up donor retention. Seven out of 10 donors give only once, but this doesn’t have to be your reality. Jay will help us understand how a 10% increase in donor retention will more than double the lifetime value of a donor and minimize our reliance on producing constant appeals for new donors. Jay is ready to teach you:
• How to establish a powerful and engaging web presence that retains donors.
• What we can learn from the annual Fundraising Effectiveness Survey Report from AFP
• Why donors leave and what to do about it
• 6 key drivers that can double the lifetime values of your donors
• Methods for creating repeat donors.

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Ongoing support is important to enabling projects to continue their work, so we encourage donors to continue to contribute to projects over time. But if you must cancel your recurring donation, please notify us.